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Shopping on Chillingham Road

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A Heaton exile, Mrs Fletcher,  has written to us with her memories of Chillingham Road. We hope that they and the photographs from an...

The People of Heaton High Pit

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Heaton High Pit (also known as the Far Pit or E Pit) was part of Heaton Main Colliery and was in High Heaton, opposite where...

Kate Elizabeth Ogg Remembered

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On 21 April  1919, the day before what would have been his daughter Kate's 32nd birthday,  Newcastle's John Ogg replied to a request from...

East Side Stories: now that’s what I call the North East!

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Dire Straits' album 'Brothers in Arms' was the first original million-selling rock CD and was masterminded by Newcastle-raised musician Mark Knopfler. It is just...

The Redoubtable Mrs Harrison Bell: campaigner and social reformer

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This photograph of Florence Nightingale Harrison Bell, who was born and bred in Newcastle and lived on Hotspur Street in Heaton for over 20...

Harry, Heaton Park Road Hairdresser

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Although life in the east end of Newcastle is very different now to that of a hundred or even fifty years ago, most of...

Chilli Road School: a fascinating new history

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Whether or not you have ever been a pupil at Chillingham Road School, if you're interested in Heaton or social history more generally, this new book...

The Really Incredible Heaton Telescope

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Our October talk, 'A Gift of Stars', will tell the story of how Grubb Parsons came to be in Newcastle and will, in particular, focus...

Heaton Herbals

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In the Newcastle trade directories from 1914-1923 the head of household of 2 Warwick Street, Heaton,  George Kingdon, was described as a 'herbalist'. We...

Den of Thieves

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On 22 January 1917, all three occupants of 45 Hotspur Street were sent to jail for a remarkable spree of shoplifting and petty crime....
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